Kentucky's two abortion bans — a near-total ban and a six-week ban — have been reinstated while a case challenging them proceeds.
t from Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who had asked the court to reverse a lower court's temporary injunctions that allowed abortion providers to keep offering services.While the laws' constitutionality has not been determined, "a statute carries with it the presumption of constitutionality" in Kentucky, Thompson wrote in his ruling, citing a state Supreme Court case decision.
He also wrote that "nothing in this order shall be construed to limit medical providers' ability to act to protect maternal health in the commonwealth," adding that the bans in question have exceptions., abortions are illegal in Kentucky unless they're necessary to save a pregnant person's life or to "prevent the serious, permanent impairment of a life-sustaining organ" of the patient.
A health provider who violates the trigger law can be found guilty of a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. prohibits abortion once an embryo's cardiac activity has been detected. An abortion past this point can only be performed only if there is a "medical emergency."Kentucky's trigger law had taken effect shortly after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v.
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